write a note on historical language
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Historical linguistics, also called diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time.[1]Principal concerns of historical linguistics include:[2]
to describe and account for observed changes in particular languagesto reconstruct the pre-history of languages and to determine their relatedness, grouping them into language families (comparative linguistics)to develop general theories about how and why language changesto describe the history of speech communitiesto study the history of words, i.e. etymology
to describe and account for observed changes in particular languagesto reconstruct the pre-history of languages and to determine their relatedness, grouping them into language families (comparative linguistics)to develop general theories about how and why language changesto describe the history of speech communitiesto study the history of words, i.e. etymology
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